5 GB of standard storage for 12 months with the AWS Free Tier

Amazon Elastic File System

Serverless, fully elastic file storage

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Benefits of Amazon EFS

Create and configure shared file systems simply and quickly for AWS compute services—no provisioning, deploying, patching, or maintenance required.

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Scale workloads on-demand to petabytes of storage and gigabytes per second of throughput out of the box.

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Reduce TCO with automatic lifecycle management to cost-optimized Infrequent Access and Archive storage classes designed to lower costs up to 97%.

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Securely and reliably access your files with a fully managed file system designed for 99.999999999 percent (11 9s) durability and up to 99.99 percent (4 9s) of availability.

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How it works

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) automatically grows and shrinks as you add and remove files with no need for management or provisioning.
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Use cases

Share code and other files in a secure, organized way to increase DevOps agility and respond faster to customer feedback.

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Persist and share data from your AWS containers and serverless applications with zero management required.

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Easier to use and scale, Amazon EFS offers the performance and consistency needed for machine learning (ML) and big data analytics workloads.

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Simplify persistent storage for modern content management system (CMS) workloads. Get your products and services to market faster, more reliably, and securely at a lower cost.

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